Arpine Maghakyan

Security Researcher of RedRays.

September 13, 2016
12:00 am

Directory Traversal vulnerability in Profile Maintenance, SAP security note 2342473

Description

The Profile Maintenance Function Modules allow an attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users, thus characters representing ‘traverse to parent directory’ are passed through to the file access APIs.

Some well-known impacts of Directory Traversal vulnerability are –

attacker could read content of arbitrary files on the remote server and expose sensitive data
attacker could overwrite, delete, or corrupt arbitrary files on the remote server

Available fix and Supported packages

SAP_BASIS | 700 | 702
SAP_BASIS | 710 | 711
SAP_BASIS | 730 | 730
SAP_BASIS | 731 | 731
SAP_BASIS | 740 | 740
SAP_BASIS | 750 | 751
SAP_BASIS 700 | SAPKB70034 |
SAP_BASIS 701 | SAPKB70119 |
SAP_BASIS 702 | SAPKB70219 |
SAP_BASIS 731 | SAPKB73119 |
SAP_BASIS 740 | SAPKB74016 |
SAP_BASIS 710 | SAPKB71022 |
SAP_BASIS 711 | SAPKB71117 |
SAP_BASIS 730 | SAPKB73017 |
SAP_BASIS 751 | SAPK-75101INSAPBASIS |
SAP_BASIS 750 | SAPK-75006INSAPBASIS |

Affected component

CVSS

Score: 0

Exploit

Detailed vulnerability information added to RedRays Security Platform. Contact [email protected] for details.

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2342473

TAGS

#Path-traversal
#&160-directory-climbing

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